Tales from the Inside

In today’s column: The fate of the proposed Albany County Land Bank may be decided Monday night and a former senior Assembly staffer and appointee of Chairman Shawn Morse will lead the Albany County Legislature’s Charter Review Commission.

From the end of the column:

As commissioners gathered for the first time in the wake of (County Executive Dan) McCoy’s call this week for consideration of term limits and shrinking the size of the legislature, Cohoes Democrat Gil Ethier — no fan of either proposal — seized the opportunity to get a laugh at (as usual) his own expense.

“I’m the guy term limits is all about,” the legislature’s longest-tenured member said in introducing himself to the panel. “I’ve been here for 36 years.”

Jordan Carleo-Evangelist

One Response

Reduce the County Executives office budget by 50%, save enough to pay the entire 39-member County Legislature’s salary for a year.

Do something smart, legislators. Propose the creation of an Albany County Community College so that poor kids who want to better themselves not have to spend 10 hours a week riding CDTA buses back and forth to Schenectady or Troy to educate themselves at a cost they can afford. School alone is tough enough.

The county already spends $10,000,000 a year in out-of-county-tuitions to support learning experiences and 100’s of jobs elsewhere. How stupid is that for a county government that has a population base of 300,000 people yet relies on others to provide low cost educational opportunities for the young adults in their backyard who need opportunity the most? Come on politicians, get you head out of the sand. Do the right thing for people who need you the most (the young and the old). Enough patronage, already!